Od´yar, famous Biscayan hero,570.O-dys´seus.SeeUlysses.Od´ys-sey, Homer’s poem, relating the wanderings of Odysseus (Ulysses) on returning from Trojan War,3,227,236.Œd´i-pus, Theban hero, who guessed the riddle of the Sphinx (whichSee), becoming King of Thebes,123-124,182.Œ´neus, King of Calydon,138,140.Œ-no´ne, nymph, married by Paris in his youth, and abandoned for Helen,229.Œ-no´pi-on, King of Chios,205.Œ´ta, Mount, scene of Hercules’ death,148.O-gier´, the Dane, one of the paladins of Charlemagne,653-654,656,848-872.Ol´i-ver, companion of Orlando,657,659-660,783-788,789.Ol´wen, wife of Kilwich,609,615.O-lym´pia, a small plain in Elis, where the Olympic games were celebrated,155.O-lym´pi-ads, periods between Olympic games (four years),155.O-lym´pi-an games,155.SeeGames.O-lym´pus, dwelling-place of the dynasty of gods of which Zeus was the head,1,3,5,43,94,218,280.Om´pha-le, queen of Lydia, daughter of Iardanus and wife of Tmolus,147.O-phi´on, king of the Titans, who ruled Olympus till dethroned by the gods Saturn and Rhea,4,5.Ops.SeeRhea.Or´a-cles, answers from the gods to questions from seekers for knowledge or advice for the future, usually in equivocal form, so as to fit any event; also places where such answers were given forth, usually by a priest or priestess,296-300.Orc, a sea-monster, foiled by Rogero when about to devour Angelica,732-735.O´re-ads, nymphs of mountains and hills,167,170.O-res´tes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; because of his crime in killing his mother, he was pursued by the Furies until purified by Minerva,234,235.O-ri´on, youthful giant, loved by Diana; Constellation,122,205-206.Or-i-thy´i-a, a nymph, seized by Boreas,176.Or-lan´do, a famous knight and nephew of Charlemagne,656-658,659-660,666,667,668,669,674-675,676,678-683,685-693,704,705,737,740,742-745,753-759,763,773,782,783-788,789-792,803-813.Or´muzd (Greek, Oromasdes), son of Supreme Being, source of good as his brother Ahriman (Arimanes) was of evil, in Persian or Zoroastrian religion,318.Or´pheus, musician, son of Apollo and Calliope,130,133,158,185-188,191,194,271.SeeEurydice.O-si´ris, the most beneficent of the Egyptian gods,292,293-294.Os´sa, mountain of Thessaly,43,123.Os´sian, Celtic poet of the second or third century,361.Ov´id, Latin poet (SeeMetamorphoses),98,275,289,308.O-wain´, knight at King Arthur’s court,534,539-546,548-549,550-553.O-zan´na, a knight of Arthur,435.PPac-to´lus, river whose sands were changed to gold by Midas (whichSee),47.Pæ´on, a name for both Apollo and Æsculapius, gods of medicine,174.Pa´gans, heathen,12.Pal´a-dins or peers, knights errant,656.Pa-læ´mon, son of Athamas and Ino (whichSee),174.Pal-a-me´des, messenger sent to call Ulysses to the Trojan War,212.Pal-a-me´des, Saracen prince at Arthur’s court,451,455,464,472,474,510.Pal´a-tine, one of Rome’s Seven Hills,281.Pa´les, goddess presiding over cattle and pastures,10,11.Pal-i-nu´rus, faithful steersman of Æneas,264,267.Pal-la´di-um, properly any image of Pallas Athene, but specially applied to an image at Troy, which was stolen by Ulysses and Diomedes,229,232.Pal´las, son of Evander,279,280,281,282,286,287.Pal´las A-the´ne (Minerva),7,81,224,249.Pam´pha-gus, a dog of Diana,35.Pan, god of nature and the universe,9,30,31,47,76,166-168.Pan-ath-e-næ´a, festival in honor of Pallas Athene (Minerva),154.Pan-de´an Pipes, musical instrument of reeds, made by Pan in memory of Syrinx (whichSee).Pan-do´ra (all-gifted), first woman, dowered with gifts by every god, yet entrusted with a box she was cautioned not to open; but, curious, she opened it, and out flew all the ills of humanity, leaving behind only Hope, which remained,13-14,17,18.Pan-dra´sus, a king in Greece, who persecuted Trojan exiles under Brutus, great-grandson of Æneas, until they fought, captured him, and, with his daughter Imogen as Brutus’ wife, emigrated to Albion (later called Britain),379-380.Pan´o-pe, plain of,92,113.Pan´thus, alleged earlier incarnation of Pythagoras,289.Paph´la-go´ni-a, ancient country in Asia Minor, south of Black Sea,208.Pa´phos, daughter of Pygmalion and Galatea (both of which,See),63,66.Par´cæ.SeeFates.Pa-ri´ahs, lowest caste of Hindus,324.Par´is, son of Priam and Hecuba, who eloped with Helen (whichSee),211,212,213,216,218,228,229,232,261,405.Par-nas-sian laurel, wreath from Parnassus, crown awarded to successful poets,47.Par-nas´sus, mountain near Delphi, sacred to Apollo and the Muses,16,19,20,43,297.Par´sees, Persian fire-worshippers (Zoroastrians), of whom there are still thousands in Persia and India,320.Par´the-non, the temple of Athene Parthenos (“the Virgin”) on the Acropolis of Athens,155,304.Passe-breul´, Tristram’s horse,462.Pa-tro´clus, friend of Achilles, killed by Hector,218,219,220,221,225.Pe´cheur, King, uncle of Perceval,483.Peers, the,656.Peg´a-sus, winged horse, born from the sea-foam and the blood of Medusa,124-126.Pe´leus, king of the Myrmidons, father of Achilles by Thetis,138,173,211.Pe´li-as, usurping uncle of Jason,130,132,136,180.Pe´li-on, mountain,123,133.Pel´le-as, knight of Arthur,435.Pe-na´tes, protective household deities of the Romans,11.Pen´drag-on, King of Britain, elder brother of Uther-Pendragon (whichSee), who succeeded him,389-390,394,396,397.Pe-nel´o-pe, wife of Ulysses, who, waiting twenty years for his return from the Trojan War, put off the suitors for her hand by promising to choose one when her weaving was done, but unravelled at night what she had woven by day,77,184,185,212,254,256.Pe-ne´us, river god,20;river,144.Pen-the-si-le´a, queen of Amazons,228.Pen´the-us, king of Thebes; having resisted the introduction of the worship of Bacchus into his kingdom, was driven mad by the god,94,161,164.Pe´nus, Roman house pantry, giving name to the Penates,11.Pep´in, father of Charlemagne,650.Pep´lus, sacred robe of Minerva,155.Per´ce-val, a great knight of Arthur,479-485,494-497,504-506,507,570.Per´dix, inventor of saw and compasses,157.Per´i-an´der, King of Corinth, friend of Arion,195-198.Per-i-phe´tes, son of Vulcan, killed by Theseus,151.Per-seph´o-ne, goddess of vegetation,8.SeeProserpine.Per´seus, son of Jupiter and Danaë, slayer of the Gorgon Medusa, deliverer of Andromeda from a sea-monster,116-122,124,202.Phæ-a´ci-ans, people who entertained Ulysses,247-253.Phæ´dra, faithless and cruel wife of Theseus,153-154.Pha-ë-thu´sa, sister of Phaëton,244.Pha-ë-ton, son of Phœbus, who dared attempt to drive his father’s sun-chariot,38-45.Phan´ta-sos, a son of Somnus, bringing strange images to sleeping men,72.Pha´on, beloved by Sappho,203.Phe´lot, knight of Wales,433-434.Pher´e-din, friend of Tristram, unhappy lover of Isoude,457,458.Phid´i-as, famous Greek sculptor,303,304,305.Phi-le´mon, husband of Baucis (whichSee),49-51.Phil-oc-te´tes, warrior who lighted the fatal pyre of Hercules,148,229.Phil´o-e, burial-place of Osiris,294.Phin´e-us, betrothed to Andromeda,120-121,130,131,259.Phleg´e-thon, fiery river of Hades,269.Pho´cis,234,235,297.Phœ´be, one of the sisters of Phaëton,91.Phœ´bus (Apollo), god of music, prophecy, and archery, the sun-god,6,22,34,38,39-41,68,71,92,220.Phœ-ni´cia,91,233,294,301.Phœ-ni´ci-ans,94,296,358.Phœ´nix, a messenger to Achilles,217;also, a miraculous bird, dying in fire by its own act and springing up alive from its own ashes,310-312.Phor´bas, a companion of Æneas, whose form was assumed by Neptune in luring Palinuras the helmsman from his post,264.Phryg´i-a,48,49,112,160.Phryx´us, brother of Helle (whichSee),130.Pin´a-bel, knight,713.Pillars of Hercules, two mountains—Cal´pè, now the Rock of Gibraltar, southwest corner of Spain in Europe, and Ab´y-la, facing it in Africa across the strait,145.Pin´dar, famous Greek poet,273.Pin´dus, Grecian mountain,43.Pi-re´ne, celebrated fountain at Corinth,125.Pi-rith´o-us, king of the Lapithæ in Thessaly, and friend of Theseus, husband of Hippodamia (whichSee),127,138,153,158,166.Pleasure, daughter of Cupid and Psyche,89.Ple´ia-des, seven of Diana’s nymphs, changed into stars, one being lost,206,208.Plenty, the Horn of,178-179.Plex-ip´pus, brother of Althea,139.Plin´y, Roman naturalist,313,315,317.Plu´to, the same as Hades, Dis, etc.; god of the Infernal Regions,5,8,9,52-56,58,88,127,135,147,153,180,186,265,267.Plu´tus, god of wealth,9.Po, Italian river,271.Pole-star,33.Po-li´tes, youngest son of Priam of Troy,232.Pol´lux, Castor and (Dioscuri, the Twins) (SeeCastor),133,158-159,202,203.Pol-y-dec´tes, king of Seriphus,116,202.Pol-y-do´re, slain kinsman of Æneas; whose blood nourished a bush that bled when broken,258.Pol-y-hym´ni-a, Muse of oratory and sacred song,8.Po-ly´i-dus, soothsayer,125.Pol-y-ni´ces, King of Thebes,182,183.Pol-y-phe´mus, giant son of Neptune,173,209,237,238,260.Po-lyx´e-na, daughter of King Priam of Troy,228,232.Po-mo´na, goddess of fruit-trees (SeeVertumnus),10,11,26,76-79.Por´rex and Fer´rex, sons of Leir, King of Britain,385.Por-tu´nus, Roman name for Palæmon (whichSee),174.Po-sei´don (Neptune), ruler of the ocean,5.Poverty,266.Prec´i-pice, threshold of Helas hall,333.Pres´ter John, a rumored priest or presbyter, a Christian pontiff in Upper Asia, believed in but never found,327-328.Pri´am, king of Troy,207,213,223,224,225,226,228,232.Pri´wen, Arthur’s shield,400.Pro´cris, beloved but jealous wife of Cephalus,26-28.Pro-crus´tes, who seized travellers and bound them on his iron bed, stretching the short ones and cutting short the tall; thus also himself served by Theseus,151.Prœ´tus, jealous of Bellerophon,125.Pro-me´theus, creator of man, who stole fire from heaven for man’s use,12,13,16,17,18,173.Pros´er-pine, the same as Persephone, goddess of all growing things, daughter of Ceres, carried off by Pluto,8,11,53-57,88,134 n.,147,186,265,266.Pro-tes-i-la´us, slain by Hector the Trojan, allowed by the gods to return for three hours’ talk with his widow Laodomia,214.Pro´teus, the old man of the sea,60,173,190-191.Pru´dence (Metis), spouse of Jupiter,5.Pry´deri, son of Pwyll,597-607.Psy´che, a beautiful maiden, personification of the human soul, sought by Cupid (Love), to whom she responded, lost him by curiosity to see him (as he came to her only by night), but finally through his prayers was made immortal and restored to him; a symbol of immortality,80-91.Pu-ra´nas, Hindu Scriptures,322.Pwyll, Prince of Dyved,583-588.Pyg-ma´li-on, sculptor in love with a statue he had made, brought to life by Venus,62-63;brother of Queen Dido,262.Pyg´mies, nation of dwarfs, at war with the Cranes,128.Py´la-des, son of Straphius, friend of Orestes,234.Pyr´a-mus, who loved Thisbe, next-door neighbor, and, their parents opposing, they talked through cracks in the house-wall, agreeing to meet in the near-by woods; where Pyramus, finding a bloody veil and thinking Thisbe slain, killed himself, and she, seeing his body, killed herself. (Burlesqued in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”),23-26.Pyr´rha, wife of Deucalion (whichSee),16-17.Pyr´rhus (Neoptolemus), son of Achilles,232.Py-thag´o-ras, Greek philosopher (540b.c.), who thought numbers to be the essence and principle of all things, and taught transmigration of souls of the dead into new life as human or animal beings,288.Pyth´i-a, priestess of Apollo at Delphi,297.Pyth´i-an Games,19,155.Pyth´i-an Oracle,84.Py´thon, serpent springing from Deluge slum, destroyed by Apollo,19.QQui-ri´nus (fromquiris, a lance or spear), a war god, said to be Romulus, founder of Rome,10.RRab´i-can, noted horse,684,685,730,739,740,741,766.Rag-na-rok´, the twilight (or ending) of the gods,348-349.Raj´puts, minor Hindu caste,324.Re´gan, daughter of Leir,383-384.Re-gil´lus, lake in Latium, noted for battle fought near by between the Romans and the Latins,158.Reg´gi-o, family from which Rogero sprang,698.Re´mus, brother of Romulus, founder of Rome,287.Rhad-a-man´thus, son of Jupiter and Europa, after his death one of the judges in the lower world,269,273.Rhap´so-dist, professional reciter of poems among the Greeks,307.Rhe´a, female Titan, wife of Saturn (Cronos), mother of the chief gods, worshipped in Greece and Rome,4,5,8,143,161,179.Rhine, river,353,355,357.Rhine-maidens, or daughters, three water-nymphs, Flosshilda, Woglinda, and Wellgunda, set to guard the Nibelungen Hoard (whichSee), buried in the Rhine,354,355.Rhodes, one of the seven cities claiming to be Homer’s birthplace,307.Rho´do-pe, mountain in Thrace,43.Rhon´gom-yant, Arthur’s lance,612.Rhœ´cus, a youth, beloved by a Dryad, but who brushed away a bee sent by her to call him to her, and she punished him with blindness,172.Rhi-an´non, wife of Pwyll,584-588.Ri-nal´do, one of the bravest knights of Charlemagne,653,656,660-664,668,670-672,673,683-686,692-693,695,703,705,708-711,745,768-769,780-781,789-792,814-825.River Ocean, flowing around the earth,2.Robert de Beau-vais´, Norman poet (1257),377.Rob´in Hood, famous outlaw in English legend, about time of Richard Cœur de Lion,643-646.Rock´ing-ham, forest of,399.Ro´do-mont, king of Algiers,693,695-697,761.
Od´yar, famous Biscayan hero,570.
O-dys´seus.SeeUlysses.
Od´ys-sey, Homer’s poem, relating the wanderings of Odysseus (Ulysses) on returning from Trojan War,3,227,236.
Œd´i-pus, Theban hero, who guessed the riddle of the Sphinx (whichSee), becoming King of Thebes,123-124,182.
Ϋneus, King of Calydon,138,140.
Œ-no´ne, nymph, married by Paris in his youth, and abandoned for Helen,229.
Œ-no´pi-on, King of Chios,205.
Œ´ta, Mount, scene of Hercules’ death,148.
O-gier´, the Dane, one of the paladins of Charlemagne,653-654,656,848-872.
Ol´i-ver, companion of Orlando,657,659-660,783-788,789.
Ol´wen, wife of Kilwich,609,615.
O-lym´pia, a small plain in Elis, where the Olympic games were celebrated,155.
O-lym´pi-ads, periods between Olympic games (four years),155.
O-lym´pi-an games,155.
SeeGames.
O-lym´pus, dwelling-place of the dynasty of gods of which Zeus was the head,1,3,5,43,94,218,280.
Om´pha-le, queen of Lydia, daughter of Iardanus and wife of Tmolus,147.
O-phi´on, king of the Titans, who ruled Olympus till dethroned by the gods Saturn and Rhea,4,5.
Ops.SeeRhea.
Or´a-cles, answers from the gods to questions from seekers for knowledge or advice for the future, usually in equivocal form, so as to fit any event; also places where such answers were given forth, usually by a priest or priestess,296-300.
Orc, a sea-monster, foiled by Rogero when about to devour Angelica,732-735.
O´re-ads, nymphs of mountains and hills,167,170.
O-res´tes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; because of his crime in killing his mother, he was pursued by the Furies until purified by Minerva,234,235.
O-ri´on, youthful giant, loved by Diana; Constellation,122,205-206.
Or-i-thy´i-a, a nymph, seized by Boreas,176.
Or-lan´do, a famous knight and nephew of Charlemagne,656-658,659-660,666,667,668,669,674-675,676,678-683,685-693,704,705,737,740,742-745,753-759,763,773,782,783-788,789-792,803-813.
Or´muzd (Greek, Oromasdes), son of Supreme Being, source of good as his brother Ahriman (Arimanes) was of evil, in Persian or Zoroastrian religion,318.
Or´pheus, musician, son of Apollo and Calliope,130,133,158,185-188,191,194,271.
SeeEurydice.
O-si´ris, the most beneficent of the Egyptian gods,292,293-294.
Os´sa, mountain of Thessaly,43,123.
Os´sian, Celtic poet of the second or third century,361.
Ov´id, Latin poet (SeeMetamorphoses),98,275,289,308.
O-wain´, knight at King Arthur’s court,534,539-546,548-549,550-553.
O-zan´na, a knight of Arthur,435.
P
Pac-to´lus, river whose sands were changed to gold by Midas (whichSee),47.
Pæ´on, a name for both Apollo and Æsculapius, gods of medicine,174.
Pa´gans, heathen,12.
Pal´a-dins or peers, knights errant,656.
Pa-læ´mon, son of Athamas and Ino (whichSee),174.
Pal-a-me´des, messenger sent to call Ulysses to the Trojan War,212.
Pal-a-me´des, Saracen prince at Arthur’s court,451,455,464,472,474,510.
Pal´a-tine, one of Rome’s Seven Hills,281.
Pa´les, goddess presiding over cattle and pastures,10,11.
Pal-i-nu´rus, faithful steersman of Æneas,264,267.
Pal-la´di-um, properly any image of Pallas Athene, but specially applied to an image at Troy, which was stolen by Ulysses and Diomedes,229,232.
Pal´las, son of Evander,279,280,281,282,286,287.
Pal´las A-the´ne (Minerva),7,81,224,249.
Pam´pha-gus, a dog of Diana,35.
Pan, god of nature and the universe,9,30,31,47,76,166-168.
Pan-ath-e-næ´a, festival in honor of Pallas Athene (Minerva),154.
Pan-de´an Pipes, musical instrument of reeds, made by Pan in memory of Syrinx (whichSee).
Pan-do´ra (all-gifted), first woman, dowered with gifts by every god, yet entrusted with a box she was cautioned not to open; but, curious, she opened it, and out flew all the ills of humanity, leaving behind only Hope, which remained,13-14,17,18.
Pan-dra´sus, a king in Greece, who persecuted Trojan exiles under Brutus, great-grandson of Æneas, until they fought, captured him, and, with his daughter Imogen as Brutus’ wife, emigrated to Albion (later called Britain),379-380.
Pan´o-pe, plain of,92,113.
Pan´thus, alleged earlier incarnation of Pythagoras,289.
Paph´la-go´ni-a, ancient country in Asia Minor, south of Black Sea,208.
Pa´phos, daughter of Pygmalion and Galatea (both of which,See),63,66.
Par´cæ.SeeFates.
Pa-ri´ahs, lowest caste of Hindus,324.
Par´is, son of Priam and Hecuba, who eloped with Helen (whichSee),211,212,213,216,218,228,229,232,261,405.
Par-nas-sian laurel, wreath from Parnassus, crown awarded to successful poets,47.
Par-nas´sus, mountain near Delphi, sacred to Apollo and the Muses,16,19,20,43,297.
Par´sees, Persian fire-worshippers (Zoroastrians), of whom there are still thousands in Persia and India,320.
Par´the-non, the temple of Athene Parthenos (“the Virgin”) on the Acropolis of Athens,155,304.
Passe-breul´, Tristram’s horse,462.
Pa-tro´clus, friend of Achilles, killed by Hector,218,219,220,221,225.
Pe´cheur, King, uncle of Perceval,483.
Peers, the,656.
Peg´a-sus, winged horse, born from the sea-foam and the blood of Medusa,124-126.
Pe´leus, king of the Myrmidons, father of Achilles by Thetis,138,173,211.
Pe´li-as, usurping uncle of Jason,130,132,136,180.
Pe´li-on, mountain,123,133.
Pel´le-as, knight of Arthur,435.
Pe-na´tes, protective household deities of the Romans,11.
Pen´drag-on, King of Britain, elder brother of Uther-Pendragon (whichSee), who succeeded him,389-390,394,396,397.
Pe-nel´o-pe, wife of Ulysses, who, waiting twenty years for his return from the Trojan War, put off the suitors for her hand by promising to choose one when her weaving was done, but unravelled at night what she had woven by day,77,184,185,212,254,256.
Pe-ne´us, river god,20;
river,144.
Pen-the-si-le´a, queen of Amazons,228.
Pen´the-us, king of Thebes; having resisted the introduction of the worship of Bacchus into his kingdom, was driven mad by the god,94,161,164.
Pe´nus, Roman house pantry, giving name to the Penates,11.
Pep´in, father of Charlemagne,650.
Pep´lus, sacred robe of Minerva,155.
Per´ce-val, a great knight of Arthur,479-485,494-497,504-506,507,570.
Per´dix, inventor of saw and compasses,157.
Per´i-an´der, King of Corinth, friend of Arion,195-198.
Per-i-phe´tes, son of Vulcan, killed by Theseus,151.
Per-seph´o-ne, goddess of vegetation,8.
SeeProserpine.
Per´seus, son of Jupiter and Danaë, slayer of the Gorgon Medusa, deliverer of Andromeda from a sea-monster,116-122,124,202.
Phæ-a´ci-ans, people who entertained Ulysses,247-253.
Phæ´dra, faithless and cruel wife of Theseus,153-154.
Pha-ë-thu´sa, sister of Phaëton,244.
Pha-ë-ton, son of Phœbus, who dared attempt to drive his father’s sun-chariot,38-45.
Phan´ta-sos, a son of Somnus, bringing strange images to sleeping men,72.
Pha´on, beloved by Sappho,203.
Phe´lot, knight of Wales,433-434.
Pher´e-din, friend of Tristram, unhappy lover of Isoude,457,458.
Phid´i-as, famous Greek sculptor,303,304,305.
Phi-le´mon, husband of Baucis (whichSee),49-51.
Phil-oc-te´tes, warrior who lighted the fatal pyre of Hercules,148,229.
Phil´o-e, burial-place of Osiris,294.
Phin´e-us, betrothed to Andromeda,120-121,130,131,259.
Phleg´e-thon, fiery river of Hades,269.
Pho´cis,234,235,297.
Phœ´be, one of the sisters of Phaëton,91.
Phϫbus (Apollo), god of music, prophecy, and archery, the sun-god,6,22,34,38,39-41,68,71,92,220.
Phœ-ni´cia,91,233,294,301.
Phœ-ni´ci-ans,94,296,358.
Phϫnix, a messenger to Achilles,217;
also, a miraculous bird, dying in fire by its own act and springing up alive from its own ashes,310-312.
Phor´bas, a companion of Æneas, whose form was assumed by Neptune in luring Palinuras the helmsman from his post,264.
Phryg´i-a,48,49,112,160.
Phryx´us, brother of Helle (whichSee),130.
Pin´a-bel, knight,713.
Pillars of Hercules, two mountains—Cal´pè, now the Rock of Gibraltar, southwest corner of Spain in Europe, and Ab´y-la, facing it in Africa across the strait,145.
Pin´dar, famous Greek poet,273.
Pin´dus, Grecian mountain,43.
Pi-re´ne, celebrated fountain at Corinth,125.
Pi-rith´o-us, king of the Lapithæ in Thessaly, and friend of Theseus, husband of Hippodamia (whichSee),127,138,153,158,166.
Pleasure, daughter of Cupid and Psyche,89.
Ple´ia-des, seven of Diana’s nymphs, changed into stars, one being lost,206,208.
Plenty, the Horn of,178-179.
Plex-ip´pus, brother of Althea,139.
Plin´y, Roman naturalist,313,315,317.
Plu´to, the same as Hades, Dis, etc.; god of the Infernal Regions,5,8,9,52-56,58,88,127,135,147,153,180,186,265,267.
Plu´tus, god of wealth,9.
Po, Italian river,271.
Pole-star,33.
Po-li´tes, youngest son of Priam of Troy,232.
Pol´lux, Castor and (Dioscuri, the Twins) (SeeCastor),133,158-159,202,203.
Pol-y-dec´tes, king of Seriphus,116,202.
Pol-y-do´re, slain kinsman of Æneas; whose blood nourished a bush that bled when broken,258.
Pol-y-hym´ni-a, Muse of oratory and sacred song,8.
Po-ly´i-dus, soothsayer,125.
Pol-y-ni´ces, King of Thebes,182,183.
Pol-y-phe´mus, giant son of Neptune,173,209,237,238,260.
Po-lyx´e-na, daughter of King Priam of Troy,228,232.
Po-mo´na, goddess of fruit-trees (SeeVertumnus),10,11,26,76-79.
Por´rex and Fer´rex, sons of Leir, King of Britain,385.
Por-tu´nus, Roman name for Palæmon (whichSee),174.
Po-sei´don (Neptune), ruler of the ocean,5.
Poverty,266.
Prec´i-pice, threshold of Helas hall,333.
Pres´ter John, a rumored priest or presbyter, a Christian pontiff in Upper Asia, believed in but never found,327-328.
Pri´am, king of Troy,207,213,223,224,225,226,228,232.
Pri´wen, Arthur’s shield,400.
Pro´cris, beloved but jealous wife of Cephalus,26-28.
Pro-crus´tes, who seized travellers and bound them on his iron bed, stretching the short ones and cutting short the tall; thus also himself served by Theseus,151.
Prϫtus, jealous of Bellerophon,125.
Pro-me´theus, creator of man, who stole fire from heaven for man’s use,12,13,16,17,18,173.
Pros´er-pine, the same as Persephone, goddess of all growing things, daughter of Ceres, carried off by Pluto,8,11,53-57,88,134 n.,147,186,265,266.
Pro-tes-i-la´us, slain by Hector the Trojan, allowed by the gods to return for three hours’ talk with his widow Laodomia,214.
Pro´teus, the old man of the sea,60,173,190-191.
Pru´dence (Metis), spouse of Jupiter,5.
Pry´deri, son of Pwyll,597-607.
Psy´che, a beautiful maiden, personification of the human soul, sought by Cupid (Love), to whom she responded, lost him by curiosity to see him (as he came to her only by night), but finally through his prayers was made immortal and restored to him; a symbol of immortality,80-91.
Pu-ra´nas, Hindu Scriptures,322.
Pwyll, Prince of Dyved,583-588.
Pyg-ma´li-on, sculptor in love with a statue he had made, brought to life by Venus,62-63;
brother of Queen Dido,262.
Pyg´mies, nation of dwarfs, at war with the Cranes,128.
Py´la-des, son of Straphius, friend of Orestes,234.
Pyr´a-mus, who loved Thisbe, next-door neighbor, and, their parents opposing, they talked through cracks in the house-wall, agreeing to meet in the near-by woods; where Pyramus, finding a bloody veil and thinking Thisbe slain, killed himself, and she, seeing his body, killed herself. (Burlesqued in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”),23-26.
Pyr´rha, wife of Deucalion (whichSee),16-17.
Pyr´rhus (Neoptolemus), son of Achilles,232.
Py-thag´o-ras, Greek philosopher (540b.c.), who thought numbers to be the essence and principle of all things, and taught transmigration of souls of the dead into new life as human or animal beings,288.
Pyth´i-a, priestess of Apollo at Delphi,297.
Pyth´i-an Games,19,155.
Pyth´i-an Oracle,84.
Py´thon, serpent springing from Deluge slum, destroyed by Apollo,19.
Q
Qui-ri´nus (fromquiris, a lance or spear), a war god, said to be Romulus, founder of Rome,10.
R
Rab´i-can, noted horse,684,685,730,739,740,741,766.
Rag-na-rok´, the twilight (or ending) of the gods,348-349.
Raj´puts, minor Hindu caste,324.
Re´gan, daughter of Leir,383-384.
Re-gil´lus, lake in Latium, noted for battle fought near by between the Romans and the Latins,158.
Reg´gi-o, family from which Rogero sprang,698.
Re´mus, brother of Romulus, founder of Rome,287.
Rhad-a-man´thus, son of Jupiter and Europa, after his death one of the judges in the lower world,269,273.
Rhap´so-dist, professional reciter of poems among the Greeks,307.
Rhe´a, female Titan, wife of Saturn (Cronos), mother of the chief gods, worshipped in Greece and Rome,4,5,8,143,161,179.
Rhine, river,353,355,357.
Rhine-maidens, or daughters, three water-nymphs, Flosshilda, Woglinda, and Wellgunda, set to guard the Nibelungen Hoard (whichSee), buried in the Rhine,354,355.
Rhodes, one of the seven cities claiming to be Homer’s birthplace,307.
Rho´do-pe, mountain in Thrace,43.
Rhon´gom-yant, Arthur’s lance,612.
Rhϫcus, a youth, beloved by a Dryad, but who brushed away a bee sent by her to call him to her, and she punished him with blindness,172.
Rhi-an´non, wife of Pwyll,584-588.
Ri-nal´do, one of the bravest knights of Charlemagne,653,656,660-664,668,670-672,673,683-686,692-693,695,703,705,708-711,745,768-769,780-781,789-792,814-825.
River Ocean, flowing around the earth,2.
Robert de Beau-vais´, Norman poet (1257),377.
Rob´in Hood, famous outlaw in English legend, about time of Richard Cœur de Lion,643-646.
Rock´ing-ham, forest of,399.
Ro´do-mont, king of Algiers,693,695-697,761.